The Opportunity.
Thakral One is looking for a Solution Architect to design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions for complex banking environments. This role involves modernizing core banking systems, integrating with cloud-native platforms, and driving API, microservices, and data lake architectures. Ideal candidates have over a decade of experience in financial services, deep technical expertise across cloud, integration, and databases, and strong stakeholder management skills.
The Expertise.
- A minimum of 11 years’ experience delivering projects within the financial services industry, including at least 5 years in a dedicated solutions architect role.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient integration architectures in complex enterprise environments.
- Ensure all proposed solutions are in alignment with the client’s enterprise architecture standards and technology strategy.
- Proven experience in modernizing core banking systems and integrating with cloud-native platforms
- Strong understanding of data lake architectures (e.g., Azure Data Lake, AWS Lake Formation, GCP Big Lake)
- Expertise in API design, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems
- Familiarity with banking domains such as payments, customer onboarding, loans, and compliance
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Knowledge of data governance, security protocols, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., MAS, GDPR, PCI-DSS)
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- A deep technical understanding required to source infra resources ranging from on-premises to cloud. Should be familiar with architect best practices but also be flexible to adapt to the team’s established practices and environment.
- Good understanding of concurrent software systems and building them in a way that is scalable, maintainable, and robust.
- Experience in facilitating workshops, eliciting key business requirements, and managing stakeholder relationships across all phases of the project.
- Strong functional knowledge in payments or cash management.
- Well-versed in end-to-end system development and project delivery specific to the banking sector.
- Expertise in integration technologies such as REST/SOAP APIs, MQ, ESB and any of the middleware platforms (e.g.: Boomi, MuleSoft, IBM Integration Bus).
- Strong knowledge of data standards and protocols (XML, JASON, ISO 20022, SWIFT) and regulatory compliance.
- Subject matter expert of common java web frameworks.
- Experience in implementing scalable web applications with fully automated deployment and control Jenkins etc.
- Experience in various SQL and NoSQL databases (Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
About us.
Thakral One is a consulting and technology services company headquartered in Singapore, with a pan-Asian presence. We focus primarily around technology-driven consulting, adoption of value-added bespoke solutions, enabling enhanced decision support through data analytics, and embracing possibilities in the cloud. We are heavily inclined towards building capabilities collaboratively with clients and believe strongly in improving grounded and practical outcomes. This approach is possible through our partnership with leading global technology providers and internal R&D teams. Our clients come from Financial Services, Banking, Telco, Government, Healthcare, and Consumer-oriented organisations.